Folsom Lake
Folsom Lake is a reservoir on the American River in the Sierra Nevada foothills of California, United States. Folsom Lake State Recreation Area, which encompasses the lake, is one of the most visited parks in the California park system.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Reservoir
- Description: reservoir on the American River in California, United States
- Also known as: “Folsom Reservoir”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Folsom Dam and Folsom State Prison.
Folsom Dam
Power station
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Folsom Dam is a concrete gravity dam on the American River of Northern California in the United States, about 25 mi northeast of Sacramento. The dam is 340 ft high and 1,400 ft long, flanked by earthen wing dams.
Folsom State Prison
Prison
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Folsom California State Prison is a California State Prison in Folsom, California, United States, approximately 20 miles northeast of the state capital of Sacramento.
California State Prison, Sacramento
Prison
California State Prison, Sacramento is a male-only state prison located in the city of Folsom, in Sacramento County, California. The facility is also referenced as Sacramento State Prison, CSP-Sacramento, CSP-SAC, and occasionally, New Folsom or New Folsom Prison which was its official name prior to October 1992.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Folsom and El Dorado Hills.
Folsom
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Folsom is a city of 82,000 people in Sacramento County in California. Folsom is home to Folsom Lake College, Folsom Dam, Folsom Prison and a historic district. Folsom is also home to the largest private employer in the Sacramento area, Intel.
El Dorado Hills
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El Dorado Hills is an unincorporated town and census-designated place in El Dorado County, California. Located in the Greater Sacramento region of Northern California, it had a population of 50,547 at the 2020 census, up from 42,108 at the 2010 census.
Folsom Lake
- Category: body of water
- Location: Sacramento County, Sacramento Valley, California, United States, North America
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Estonian to Slovenian—“Folsom Lake” goes by many names.
- Estonian: “Folsomi järv”
- Estonian: “Folsomi paisjärv”
- Estonian: “Folsomi veehoidla”
- French: “lac Folsom”
- French: “Lac Folsom”
- Hebrew: “אגם פולסום”
- Italian: “Folsom Lake”
- Italian: “Lago Folsom”
- Japanese: “フォルサム湖”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Folsom Lake”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Folsom”
- Slovenian: “Folsom Lake”
- Slovenian: “jezero Folsom”
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Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Represa and El Dorado Hills.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Folsom Dam and Mount Stoneman 1-016 Dam.
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